I am using ALL2LAME to transcode my FLACs to mp3s for use in my car stereo. This frontend works great for me because it allows me to transcode in one step and carry the tag information from the vorbis comments into the mp3's ID3v1 tag.

The only thing I can't work out how to do is to configure the FLAC decode process. Specifically, my FLACs have ReplayGain tags and I would like it to apply album mode ReplayGain as it decodes. Is there a way to do this in ALL2LAME that I am missing?

If not, is this something it might be possible to add please Speek?

Thanks.
Tim.

As nobody has responded, I presume this is not possible.

In which case does anybody know of another method or frontend for doing this?

I guess I can do it in individual steps by decoding the flac while applying album ReplayGain, for example with Winamp and the Disk Writer plugin. Then encoding with LAME and then using tag.exe to copy the tag from the flac file.

But I would really like to find a way to do this in a single step. All2Lame would have been perfect for this, if only it made it possible to apply the ReplayGain.

Any ideas?

i think you can use foobar's diskwriter to do that. it can use replaygain and copies your tags (using commanline encoder). commandline encoder for foobar 0.6 and 0.7 (in "browse dir") can be found at case's http://www.saunalahti.fi/~cse/html/foobar.html


regards; ilikedirt

Thanks ilikedirt. I have just tried this and it works exactly like I wanted.

I suppose I should have guessed the answer would be foobar B)

Is there any way of making it output into the source directory, or a subfolder of that, without having to change the Output Directory in Preferences every time I convert?

foobar 0.7 diskwriter is able to create directories according to the source tags.

check "create subdirectories" and use \ in the output formatting string.

edit: don't know if you can make it use the source folder, but you can use something like "$directory(%_path%,1)" (current folder, path 2 would be parent folder) to create folders according to source folders name.

edit2: i think, it should be possible to create a folder in the source path doing this:

your flac albums are in (i pretend)

d:\music\band\album\*.flac

if you set output dir to "d:\"

the string (or something like that)

$directory(%_path%,3)\$directory(%_path%,2)\$directory(%_path%,1)\transcode\filename format

should work.

(your source paths have to be consistent for this of course)

regards; ilikedirt

That works great. Unfortunately my source path formats do occasionally vary, but I can work round that. I have been trying to get a string that will work with any source path using $substr on the path but have run into problems with my backslash characters being converted to underscores. Anyway, I think perhaps this has gone far enough off-topic, so I will create a thread for that in the foobar forum.

Thanks.
Tim.